Sunday, 24/11/2024 | 03:32 GMT+7
With advantages such as reasonable
price, energy efficiency, high luminescence efficiency and high durability, diverse
styles, LED (light emitting diode) products are becoming attractive to Vietnamese
consumers.
As a result of the Vietnam
Energy Efficient Public Lighting (VEEPL) project funded by GEF (Global
Environment Facility) and UNDP (United Nations Development Program), it is
forecasted that by 2014, one hundred percent of street lights in Vietnam will
be HPS (High Pressure Sodium) bulbs and CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) bulbs; and
all indoor lights will be T8, T5 and CFL lamps. The use of those types of energy
efficient lighting equipment will allow
The Song Han Bridge is decorated with LED lights
Notably, if LED bulbs are
used to replace incandescent bulbs, electricity consumption can be reduced by more
than 88 percent; and if fluorescent tubes are replaced with LED lamps, more
than 44 percent of electricity consumption can be saved. If it replaces all CFL,
T5, T8 and HPS bulbs with LED bulbs,
For its advantages, LED technology
is expected to become popular in
Widespread use
LED technology has penetrated
the Vietnamese market in the way it entered many other countries in the world.
In
LED advertising boards are
being used widely, which can be found in showrooms, drawing-rooms, reception
halls, and on streets. LED lights are also used for indoor and outdoor
decoration purposes, especially in restaurants, hotels and festivals.
In the transport sector, LED bulbs
are used to replace incandescent bulbs to light up the traffic signs on
streets, roads and bridges. In 2008, LED lighting systems were installed on the
Song Han and Thuan Phuoc bridges in the city of
In fact, however, the use of LED
technology for indoor and outdoor lighting purposes in
In the Hoa Lac High Tech Park,
On April 28, 2010, the Saigon
High Tech Park in
Domestic manufacturers’ weakness
A report of the VEEPL project
shows that
The Vietnamese Government and
the concerned organizations pay much attention to encouraging and promoting the
use of the LED technology. LED technology research centers in
LED lights are used widely for indoor and outdoor decoration purposes, especially in restaurants, hotels and festivals
However, experts said that
The penetration of Chinese lighting
products, including LED lights, into the Vietnamese market makes it difficult
for domestic manufacturers to sell their products. Moreover, due to the lack of
the LED technology, which includes the technology to manufacture LED chips, the
technology to manufacture LED power sources and the LED packaging technology, domestic
manufacturers have to import almost everything related to the LED technology.
Therefore the domestic manufacturing cost is high and domestic products can
hardly compete on price with Chinese products.
Due to obstacles such as the
lack of knowledge of LED technology, high manufacturing cost and especially limited
consultancy for consumers, the Vietnamese LED lighting market remains
underdeveloped.
In the opinion of
researchers,
Despite many obstacles, it is
believed that in the near future LED lights will be used widely for lighting
purposes in